He caught me in there a few times and put me out.
He said, "Boy, if your uncle Lee Calhoun caught you in here,
your mama or daddy caught you, they'd kill me.
I shaped myself around that.
That's... that's me.
That's got to be me right there.
When you listen, when you think,
that you can't do good, with rock and roll...
No. No! No, no.
How can the-- how can the devil save souls?
What are you talking about?
Man, I have the devil in me!
If I didn't have, I'd be a Christian!
H... E... L... L...
Religious conviction...
doesn't mean anything resembling extremism.
Are you following those that heal?
Like Jesus Christ did?
Well, it's happening every day.
The blinded eyes were opened.
The lame were made to walk.
The crippled were made to walk.
But when it comes to worldly music,
rock and roll...
...anything like that, you're still a sinner.
And then you're a sinner and unless you been saved and born again
and be made as a little child...
and walk before God and be holy,
and, brother, I mean, you got to be so pure...
you got to walk and talk with God to go to heaven.
You got to be so good in His presence.
It's what's written in the Bible.
I guess I took enough pills for the whole town.
Drank enough whiskey to lift any ship off the ground.
I used to drink a fifth of tequila to sober up on.
I drank two and three fifths of whiskey a day
and a fifth of tequila to sober up and do my show.
I don't even believe in religion--
the Bible don't even speak-- the word is not, "religion"
is not even in the Bible.
Jerry Lee, when you're eighty years old,
you're not going to be banging the piano on your feet
and still singing rock and roll.
Me and Chuck, we're very good friends,
still really great friends.
Me and Chuck Berry-- My mother always thought
Chuck Berry was the greatest rock and roll singer in the world.
I said, "Wait a minute, Mama, I do rock and roll."